Conversations | Premiere | Artist Talk | Cao Fei

Inaugurating this year’s Conversations series, Chinese artist Cao Fei is in discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London. Cao Fei’s multi-media practice explores the
contemporary conditions in urban China, taking form in RMB City - a city the artist developed as the avatar ‘China Tracy’ in the online world of Second Life. Modeled as a composite Chinese city of the 21st Century, RMB City operates as an open platform that interrogates the boundaries between the virtual and the real, exploring, as the artist states, ‘fantasy realms that are highly self-contradictory, inter-permeative, pan- political, extremely entertaining and laden with irony and suspicion.’
Cao Fei, Artist, Beijing, in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London
Date: SUNDAY MARCH 15TH, 10am to 11:30am
Filmed on site at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2015